Word: zakharov
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least to put the journalist on trial. It is possible, of course, that Daniloff could then be sent home, expelled rather than released. But the only terms on which Moscow so far seems willing to do even that would be a trade of the reporter for Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee whose arrest for espionage in New York City triggered the frame-up of Daniloff in Moscow a week $ later. And the Reagan Administration has sworn never to accept a straight swap of a real spy for an innocent American...
...best face on the arrangement that he could when he told skeptical reporters who packed the White House pressroom on Friday that the deal was only an "interim" step that changed nothing but the location of the two former prisoners. Said Shultz with considerable vehemence: "These two people, Zakharov and Daniloff, are in no way comparable. And we are not going to trade them off against each other." The U.S., Shultz said, still regards Daniloff as a "hostage" and "will continue to make every effort to secure his prompt departure from the Soviet Union and safe return home." That...
...there would be no way to get Daniloff released without arranging something that the Soviets could claim was a trade. As an Administration official puts it, however, "there are swaps and there are swaps." One idea now is that the Soviets might let Daniloff go with the understanding that Zakharov would be traded later for someone more suitable: a prominent Soviet dissident, perhaps, or a Soviet citizen convicted of spying for the U.S. That is roughly what happened in 1978, when the Soviets freed U.S. Businessman F. Jay Crawford after he was accused of smuggling; two Soviet U.N. employees...
Despite the decision to turn Zakharov loose, the incident has underlined Washington's determination to reduce the Soviets' swollen diplomatic missions to the U.S. and the United Nations. The Soviets have some 320 diplomatic and consular postings in the U.S. and more than 200 employees like Zakharov in their missions to the U.N. The FBI estimates that 35% of these Soviets are intelligence officers. The U.S. has just 130 people in its mission to the U.N., and the Reagan Administration has told Moscow to reduce its U.N. missions to 177 employees by April 1, 1988. At its embassy in Moscow...
Whatever the lingering mysteries about the Kremlin's motives in the Daniloff case, there is no doubt that the crisis was precipitated by the arrest of their man at the U.N., Gennadi Zakharov. Precisely because they are so obsessive about the clandestine side of their national-security policy, the Soviets take very seriously the task of getting their spies who have been nabbed out of the hands of FBI and CIA debriefers. If retrieving Zakharov meant disrupting the chance of a summit, well, too bad. But first things first. And in this case, as in so many others before, that...